Rheydt water tower
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The water tower Rheydt is in the district of Rheydt in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ), Wickrather Straße 257th
The building was built in 1895. It was entered in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach under No. W 015 on October 14, 1986 .
location
The water tower stands in an exposed position on a hill between Rheydt and Wickrath , at the street meeting point Wickrather Straße - Reststrauch.
architecture
The water tower, built in 1895, consists of a substructure, shaft and head piece. Its height is 41.80 m, the base diameter is 13.5 m. The sloping 12 m high substructure is octagonal and tapers to a mighty cornice . This is where the shaft of the water tower starts. The capacity of the water tower is 600 cubic meters.
The water tower is of good structural quality. The building is worth protecting as a monument due to its decoration and design typical of the time, as well as for technical and historical reasons.
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- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 (234.24 kB).
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '12 " N , 6 ° 26' 4.9" E